Carol Masser

That feels like a cloud that's hanging over this bank right now.

How quickly do you think we can resolve it?

I'm sure you do.

From the strategic standpoint, how is it holding you back?

How is it distracting you?

What are you prevented from doing that you would like to do right now?

This is the top of the to-do list for you, and then someone else is going to step in eventually.

You've offered your thoughts about where that someone might come from, that you'd like to see them come from internally, from within the bank.

Are you open to someone coming from the outside?

When that person is selected, there is another seat that might open, and it's the chairperson seat.

And I just wonder, when you step aside as CEO, has the chapter truly closed for you and the bank?

That is true as well, particularly this gentleman right here, who wants that response from you.

Just a final question from me.

I believe you first took the job as CEO back in 2011.

As you look back on things, and I think this is the appropriate time to begin to think about this, your legacy at the bank, I'm not sure you ever really thought that we'd end up here integrating Credit Suisse in the circumstances we did, but how would you like your legacy to be remembered as the leader of UBS?

Sergio, it's good to see you.

Thanks for making time for us.

Thank you.

We'll get you into the world.

That was the UBS CEO, Sergio Armati, speaking with Bloomberg Surveillance right here at the World Economic Forum.